Wherever they appear in the hope of a quiet refuge, war reaches them sooner or later — and it doesn’t matter which reality Novikov, Levashev, Shulgin, and their comrades from the “Andreev Brotherhood” end up in this time. Is it a terrible pattern, a cruel fate, or the hypothetical World Keepers again and again decide to test them for strength or to reveal that notorious limit of their abilities? A kaleidoscope of worlds and times once again transports the friends from battle-torn Transvaal to Valhalla — a place that, in an instant, turns into a “field of battle,” forcing them at last to make a decision for the final and decisive fight with the duggurans whose invasion threatens the very existence of humankind. But not everything is so simple and unequivocal, and winning one battle doesn’t always mean winning a war…